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I bet you didn't know this, but the Australian city of Perth got television in 1959.

the only genre i listen to. *adjusts ray bans*

very very interesting. no, really. [2]

very very interesting. no, really.

Yeah.. "Christian music" AND "Polish reggae" as related tags? Clearly, then, the elusive indie sub genre is Christian Polish Reggae.

best genre

:is dazed and confused: haha, it's like some kind of indie sub-gender but then again when you're looking at the related tags you're like wtf. polish reggae? i have noah and the whale tagged as 131. yup, looks like this is gonna be one of the undefined genres.

found this, the question was where did 131 come from : "It's a relic of the ID3v1 spec. Back in the day, size mattered, and shaving bytes was important: instead of leaving genre as an open field, which could be any length, a list of genres was created that you could reference with a number. You can find the list of genres here: http://www.multimediasoft.com/amp3dj/help/index.html?amp3dj_00003e.htm more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3 ."

My favorite tag on last.fm.

When I first saw things coming up as genre '131' I thought it was just mislabeled and I changed them to their 'correct' genre. Then more and more bands were coming up with this genre, which was annoying because I'm obsessed with my library being correctly named and labeled in every category. Now that I see that it's done purposely and no one has any idea why (I even googled it- a lot of people ask, and the best answer is 'it means indie music' which still explains nothing) I find it pretty funny. "The 131 labeler has done it again!"

it's a big fucking conspiracy.

Haha I love the related tags, this seems to be the most obscure tag out there right now.. where-in lies the secret?